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Ruth Benedict: The trouble with...

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The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.

Source: Journal entry, 7 Jan, 1913; in An Anthropologist at Work, part 2, by Margaret Mead, 1959.
-- Ruth Benedict, (Jun 6 1887-1948), US anthropologist; She was an expert on American Indian tribes; wrote classic Patterns of Culture, 1934; Race, Science and Politics, 1940.


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